cascade

cascade is a skill for Claude Code from Parcha-ai/parcha-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for handling risky or multi-step development work as a series of short, bounded loops. Each loop makes one change, checks the result, and records what happened before the next loop begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan work, advance one verified loop at a time, or take over an existing chain after a session boundary. It also records permissions, limits, human decisions, and exact targets.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of a large, unchecked change and makes progress easier to resume or hand over between coding sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the cascade plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan work, advance one verified loop at a time, or take over an existing chain after a session boundary. It also records permissions, limits, human decisions, and exact targets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parcha-ai/parcha-skills/cascade
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Parcha-ai/parcha-skills --skill cascade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Parcha-ai/parcha-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cascade, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for cascade

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for cascade

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 417 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00417
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 4d ago against content hash 277fcbf73c90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cascade scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_cascade.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

cascade/skills/cascade/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Cascade

Keep one living plan in .cascade/<project>.md or the existing project plan:

  • Outcome and final acceptance check.
  • Context needed to resume: workspace, constraints, decisions, source links.
  • Tasks: ID, deliverable, dependencies, exit check, status, evidence.
  • Current owners, blockers, and next actions.

Decompose. Split by verifiable outcomes or subsystems; detail only near-term work. Expand large tasks into children while retaining the parent's acceptance check. Convert chains into dependency graphs by keeping actual prerequisites and removing ordering that serves no dependency.

Execute. Pick tasks whose prerequisites passed. Build, verify, update the plan, repeat while authorized work remains. Use todo, doing, done, blocked. Failed checks remain unfinished; change approach when attempts stop producing information. Respect session limits and continue independent work when a task is blocked.

Parallelize. Use available subagents for independent ready tasks. Give each worker context, owned files or worktree, deliverable, and exit check. Serialize overlapping edits. Workers return changes, evidence, and unresolved issues; the lead owns integration and the plan. Mirror the graph into native tasks when useful; otherwise the file suffices.

Verify. Mark done only when the exit check passes on the actual candidate. Record check, result, and revision or working-tree identity. Test relevant failure cases; establish a baseline for measured improvements. Never weaken acceptance to hide failure. Verify the assembled system against the original outcome after its required tasks pass.

Resume. Save progress at meaningful boundaries and before handoff. Compare the plan with actual files and workers; recheck stale evidence. Continue until the overall acceptance passes or no authorized work can advance. Leave concrete blockers and next actions when stopping.

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago Changed · -97 lines · -51 tokens per session 277fcbf73c90
  2. 10d ago First seen · 134 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 3ef51c51a276

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cascade is a skill published in the GitHub repository Parcha-ai/parcha-skills (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 417 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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